What Colombia’s ruling party calls an “organized, coordinated, aggressive and persistent strategy” against the government and former President Alvaro Uribe is called “journalism.” My colleagues and I pose no “serious…
US ambassador Philip Goldberg better not be as gullible as his predecessor William Brownfield and consider Colombia’s government may be aligned with the mafia, not Washington DC. The US embassy…
While officially a free market democracy, Colombia’s state system and economy are rigged by “clans” that are largely above the law. These clans’ ability to almost usurp the country’s democracy…
Four people died in a massacre in Medellin on Saturday after armed men opened fire at a corner store. The massacre took place in the Antonio Nariño neighborhood in Medellin’s…
An arrested policeman is accused of being a ringleader of the border branch of “Los Rastrojos,” the group that helped Venezuela’s opposition leader Juan Guaido into Colombia last year. Cucuta…
One of Colombia’s top organized crime prosecutors was not assassinated, but murdered in a botched robbery, the prosecution said Wednesday. The killing of the Cali chief of prosecutor Alcibiades Libreros…
Homicides in Colombia went up 2.34% between January and November 2019 compared to the same period the year before, according to the country’s medical examiner’s office. In its monthly report,…
A top prosecutor of the organized crime unit of Colombia’s prosecution was assassinated on Sunday in one of the biggest blows against law enforcement in recent years. The assassination of…
Colombia’s acting prosecutor general has warned that a controversial tax reform expected to be approved by Congress on Tuesday would shield money launderers from prosecution, according to local media. Acting…